Dr Anna Smajdor claims doctors and nurses should be able to carry out daily tasks without feeling any kindness towards their patients. Nurses and doctors do not need to treat patients with compassion, a controversial academic has claimed.Dr Anna …

Don’t look now, but all of a sudden the topic of compassionate management is becoming trendy.A growing number of business conferences are focusing in on the topic of compassion at work. There’s the International Working Group on Compa…

Medical students are tasked with learning many skills during the course of their education and AIMU makes sure that empathy is one of those skills. It is not just medical schools that are taking note of the importance of empathy training either. I…

Empathy, and Theory of Mind (ToM) as a cognitive element of empathy, are key components in the helping professions, yet little is known about the development of empathy in psychology training. Soto-Chodiman, Becerra, and Harms (2012) reduced this gap b…

n phenomenology, theories of empathy are intimately connected with the question of how it is possible to have insight into the mind of the other person. In this article, the author wants to show why it is self-evident for us that the other person is ha…

Sue Gerhardt, author of ‘Why Love Matters’, illustrates the important connection between nurturing infants and the development of empathy.  Erika had the opportunity to interview Sue Gerhardt, a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and aut…